Robot Motion and Control 2007

Part I: Control of Nonholonomic Systems.- Modelling and Trajectory Generation of Lighter-than-air Aerial Robots.- Control of 3 DOF Quadrotor Model.- Internal-model-control-based Adaptive Attitude Tracking.- Tracking Control of Automated Guided Vehicles.- VFO Control for Mobile Vehicles in the Presence of Skid Phenomenon.- Part II: Vision-based Control.- Vision-based Dynamic Velocity Field Generation for Mobile Robots.- Zoom Control to Compensate Camera Translation within a Robot Egomotion Estimation Approach.- Two-finger Grasping for Vision Assisted Object Manipulation.- Trajectory Planning with Control Horizon Based on Narrow Local Occupancy Grid Perception.- Part III: New Control Algorithms for Robot Manipulators.- Control for a Three-joint Underactuated Planar Manipulator: Interconnection and Damping Assignment Passivity-based Control Approach.- A New Control Algorithm for Manipulators with Joint Flexibility.- An Inverse Dynamics-based Discrete-time Sliding-mode Controller for Robot Manipulators.- Velocity Tracking Controller for Rigid Manipulators.- Fixed-point-transformations-based Approach in Adaptive Control of Smooth Systems.- Driving Redundant Robots by a Dedicated Clutch-based Actuator.- An Energy-based Approach Towards Modeling of Mixed-reality Mechatronic Systems.- Part IV: New Trends in Kinematics and Localization Methods.- Navigation of Autonomous Mobile Robots.- Kinematic Motion Patterns of Mobile Manipulators.- Generalized Kinematic Control of Redundant Manipulators.- Parametric Representation of the Environment of a Mobile Robot for Measurement Update in a Particle Filter.- Simulation of a Mobile Robot with an LRF in a 2D Environment and Map Building.- Part V: Trajectory Planning Issues for Nonholonomic Systems.- Lie Algebraic Approach to Nonholonomic Motion Planning in Cluttered Environment.- Computationally Efficient Path Planning for Wheeled Mobile Robots in Obstacle-dense Environments.- Piecewise-constant Controls for Newtonian Nonholonomic Motion Planning.- Path Following for Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulators.- Part VI: Rehabilitation Robotics.- On Simulator Design of the Spherical Therapeutic Robot Koala.- Development of Rehabilitation Training Support System Using 3D Force Display Robot.- Applying CORBA Technology for the Teleoperation of Wheeler.- Part VII: Humanoid Robots.- Educational Walking Robots.- Humanoid Binaural Sound Tracking Using Kalman Filtering and HRTFs.- Mechatronics of the Humanoid Robot ROMAN.- Part VIII: Applications of Robotics Systems.- Assistive Feeding Device for Physically Handicapped Using Feedback Control.-Design and Control of a Heating-pipe-duct-inspection Mobile Robot.- Measurement and Navigation System of the Inspection Robot RK-13.- Architecture of Multi-segmented Inspection Robot KAIRO-II.- The Project of an Autonomous Robot Capable to Cooperate in a Group.- End-effector Sensors’ Role in Service Robots.- Part IX: Multiagent Systems.- Detecting Intruders in Complex Environments with Limited-range Mobile Sensors.- High-level Motion Control for Workspace-sharing Mobile Robots.- Urban Traffic Control and Path Planning for Vehicles in Game-theoretic Framework.- A Low-cost High-precision Time Measurement Infrastructure for Embedded Mobile Systems.